The way to blame employees

Watching ancient costume movies and TV series, whether it is marching to fight or governing the country, the punishment of flogging is the most commonly used and best used punishment of the ancients. The duty of the stick is to hit the board and spank with a stick. Above the lobby, the mirror is hung high, and the county magistrate will serve a staff member if he doesn't agree with a word. Somebody, pull it out and hit 50 more boards! All the people watching at the gate of my official hall are fighting two wars.

The person who was about to be scolded by the staff lay prone on the long chair, but when he saw the chief officer coming with a stick in each hand, his hand fell off as soon as he lifted the stick, so that a deaf person swung it on the man's ass, and the man got a stick, and all the onlookers blinked and beat him hard, so that he couldn't bear to look straight. These sticks and sticks are different in different dynasties, such as wooden sticks, wooden boards, wooden sticks, bamboo sticks and Vitex negundo, but they are all weights and measures stipulated by the state and are usually divided into large, medium and small. Although the pain of flogging the staff is self-evident, ranging from bedridden to directly killed by the staff, flogging the staff is a relatively light punishment among the five ancient punishments. It is light because it is controllable, and the light responsibility or heavy responsibility depends on the executive. There is a joke in "Laughing at Guanglinji" about a man who committed a crime and wanted to be punished by the government. He was afraid of pain, so he used San Qian Silver and hired a neighbor to beat him for him. The neighbor got the money and went to him happily. When I arrived at the yamen, the county grandfather drank and hit the 30 th board! The man just got a few boards, and the pain was unbearable, so he secretly bribed the San Qian silver he got to the executioner. The officer took bribes and fought again, and his hands were obviously much lighter. After the neighbor was executed, he said to the person who gave him money before, thank you for giving me money and saving my life, otherwise I would have been killed.

It can be seen that there is a mystery in the staff's head. As a stick is as light as a stick, it is possible for officials to prioritize, which requires more skills. Li Boyuan, a novelist in the late Qing Dynasty, said in A Hell on Earth that a county grandfather had just arrived, and he told the whole city that he had been wronged and immediately complained. Two people came to express their dissatisfaction. Only after asking did I know that one of them borrowed money from another, but there was no word and no one was undocumented. County grandfather doesn't know how to judge. County grandfather said, since there is no evidence, do you know the crime of false accusation and frame-up? The man said that I just had a quarrel with him, so he dragged me here and pointed to an official in the hall. County grandfather's heart is like a mirror, exclaiming: left and right! Pull it down and the staff will serve.

It turns out that this director is here to pull business for himself, and the county grandfather knows what it means and turns a blind eye. In the yamen of ancient counties, officials who used to beat people with small boards had to practice in advance, and some were beaten to pieces, but their flesh and blood were not hurt; Others killed people, only to see that their skin was red and swollen, but they suffered great internal injuries. It's amazing. How did you practice it? The chief of staff in charge of beating people is specially trained. The way to practice this beating skill is to beat tofu, put a piece of tofu on the ground and beat it with a board. Only noise is allowed, and noise is not allowed to be broken. Tofu comes into contact with air and has a skin. When it was finished, the tofu inside was rotten, and the outside was still a square piece, which did not move at all. This is the practice of flogging. Therefore, anyone who commits a crime should know that he can't escape punishment today and he will pay the price without hesitation. The executioner with this skill, this authority, gives birth to such a gray income. Therefore, the stick responsibility is sometimes very unreliable.

There is a man named Qin Qingtong in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, who is Dong Cheng's domestic slave. Because he had an affair with Dong Cheng's concubine, he was scolded by the staff for forty years, and he was able to twist the chain and climb over the wall. This staff should be genuine, which shows that he is also a man of God.